The Peaceful Gnome

Say what?  How'd that happen? Posted via email from The Angry Gnome

Scott Ostler from The Chronicle has the best description ever of the Giants version of baseball this year: (10-26) 22:45 PDT -- Giants baseball: It ain't baseball. What is it? We're not sure, but we have watched baseball for decades, and what the Giants have been playing for the last month is not it. It resembles baseball. The ball is a baseball. The players play on a baseball field, wear baseball uniforms and spit like baseball players. But this is a strange new game, with subtle differences. Baseball is boring. You go to a baseball game with your buddies or your family, you watch a couple of innings, you keep a box score for a while, then you get bored, lose track of the "action" and start buying $10 beers to pass the time. Giantsball is much more demanding. You have to watch every pitch, every inning, because stuff keeps happening. You even have to participate. At the Giants' last home game against the Phillies, the crowd of 85,000 (give or t...

GO GIANTS!  :-)  The Knuckleheads RULE!  Posted via email from The Angry Gnome

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Wouldn't it be nice if we could eat certain foods or take certain "magical" vitamins and "Boost your immune system?"  Sadly reality doesn't work that way :-(   Listen to Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com on the immune boosting frauds: Posted via email from The Angry Gnome

I got an early birthday gift from my Aunt Bella and Uncle Frank, a very cool coffee table type book about Gnomes :-)  I love it! But as I sat reading through it at my desk and began to ponder where to keep it (on the desk with my set of essential books is what I decided) it occurred to me that gifts could be a problem if one is seeking to get into a more minimalist sort of lifestyle.  That's what I'm trying to do, with only a very little progress so far, but I'm trying to have fewer material possessions tying me down because they are hard to move, hard to keep tidy and get in the way a lot and force you to have bigger and more rooms than you would have if you were a true minimalist .  But if people keep giving me "stuff" I'm just treading water when I get rid of my older stuff.  Of course none of this applies to my Gnome book, that is so perfect and so me that I'm not going to get rid of it no matter how minimalist I get :-) Of course givi...

Rev. Fisk has a good video here on Infant Baptism... Plus:  SHARK BOXING!   Woo Hoo! Posted via email from The Angry Gnome

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So, Mom, Lora and me were sitting around tonight playing cards, laughing and having a good time, the windows were open because it’s warm out, and some numb skull neighbor , I have no way of knowing wich low life idiot it was, called security on us!  It was 9:30 at night, not midnight or anything, besides it was a Saturday night , not Tuesday at 2:00 am or something!  Now, I can understand someone thinking we were a bit too noisy and wanting us to quiet down, even early on a Saturday night, but the adult, mature and American thing to have done would have been to simply knock on our door and ask if we could quiet down.  We would have said sure and that would have been the end of that, but to call the authorities, even just an overweight useless git of a security drone, is just plain rude and offensive.  I told the fat slob that we were not in violation of any law or clause of our lease as quiet time is 10 PM, I also said I understood it was not his call.  We had j...

Just an FYI post:  I've posted my calendar at the bottom of my Blogspot blog, Angry Gnome .  Posted via email from The Angry Gnome

Way cool... From the good folks at QuestionCopyright.org Posted via email from The Angry Gnome

Hey, Livermore is not just parks and vineyards and sunshine, From The Boston Globe's "Big Picture" it's also the home of the... The National Ignition Facility http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/10/the_national_ignition_facility.html Posted via email from The Angry Gnome

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If you'd like to view this email in a Web browser, please click here . Join or Renew Membership | Donate | Chapter Contacts | Online Store       Tuesday, September 28 , 2010 VETERANS FOR PEACE IS APPALLED AT THE RECENT ACTIONS BY THE FBI Dear Phillip, CONTACT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Click "Take Action" to send an email to the Department of Justice!  Let them know as military veterans, we will continue to struggle to protect democracy. Like other peace advocates, Veterans For Peace is appalled by the heavy-handed actions of the FBI in raiding the homes of anti-war activists.  We would also be astonished by those actions were it not for the FBI's long history of harassing peaceful dissent.  From the disgraced leadership of J. Edgar Hoover down to these 2010 raids in Minneapolis and Chicago, the Bureau has allowed itself to become the dark agent of stifling democratic opposition to America's e...

A friend, who I usually disagree with politically, sent this link to me. It's a video called "The American Form of Government" and is well worth the ten minutes to watch. http://www.wimp.com/thegovernment/ Posted via email from The Angry Gnome

U.S. troops fight on despite "end to combat" in Iraq Reuters – A U.S. soldier performs a radio check during a patrol in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad September … By Jim Loney Jim Loney – Fri Sep 24, 1:55 pm ET BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Since President Barack Obama declared an end to combat operations in Iraq, U.S. troops have waged a gun battle with a suicide squad in Baghdad, dropped bombs on armed militants in Baquba and assisted Iraqi soldiers in a raid in Falluja. Obama's announcement on August 31 has not meant the end of fighting for some of the 50,000 U.S. military personnel remaining in Iraq 7-1/2 years after the invasion that removed Saddam Hussein. "Our rules of engagement have not changed. Iraq does remain from time to time a dangerous place, so when our soldiers are attacked they will return fire," said Brigadier General Jeffrey Buchanan, a U.S. military spokesman. Posted vi...

Here is a nice site where those who are "evangelical" or "pentecostal" or "Roman Catholic" or nothing at all, can go to find out what Lutherans are all about, it's easy for me to say "We are BOTH Catholic and Evangelical" but this site helps to explain just how that is possible :-) Lutheranism 101 Posted via email from The Angry Gnome

So, I printed this out and tacked it to my wall where I can see it.   Before you speak:        Is it T rue?      Is it H urtful? Does it I mprove on the silence?      Is it N ecessary?      Is it K ind? Posted via email from The Angry Gnome

On Saturday we went to the Ren Faire at Casa De Fruita... it was a blast! Attending were Lora, Larry, Serenity, Mike, Maryann, Sophia, Topanga, friends Tom and Lucy and friend Nicky with her two kids Kaylee and Ryan. Posted via email from Our Family Blog